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[Po-Hsu Lin <2045405@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

When fixing bug 2042057, we are in the middle of dropping shiftfs
support. This consequently leads to an inconsistent test result for 6.5
variants on Jammy. And give us an impression that we're still supporting
shiftfs there.

After discussion with the team we can conclude that shiftfs will be gone
from 6.5 variants on Jammy.

This inconsistency does not have any impact as:
all the potential "users" of shiftfs (lxd basically) should be able to automatically detect its availability and if shiftfs is not available they should switch to idmapped mounts  
(Thanks for Andrea's comment on this)

We can disable shiftfs related tests in ubuntu_overlayfs_smoke for 6.5
now.

** Affects: ubuntu-kernel-tests
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)
         Status: New

** Changed in: ubuntu-kernel-tests
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)

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Title:
  Disable shiftfs related tests in ubuntu_overlayfs_smoke_test for 6.5

Status in ubuntu-kernel-tests:
  New

Bug description:
  When fixing bug 2042057, we are in the middle of dropping shiftfs
  support. This consequently leads to an inconsistent test result for
  6.5 variants on Jammy. And give us an impression that we're still
  supporting shiftfs there.

  After discussion with the team we can conclude that shiftfs will be
  gone from 6.5 variants on Jammy.

  This inconsistency does not have any impact as:
  all the potential "users" of shiftfs (lxd basically) should be able to automatically detect its availability and if shiftfs is not available they should switch to idmapped mounts  
  (Thanks for Andrea's comment on this)

  We can disable shiftfs related tests in ubuntu_overlayfs_smoke for 6.5
  now.

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